[Traskelion]

Okay, first the disclaimer, if this has been stated recently, sorry, and also sorry if this have been fixed in SEIV Gold, as I only have SEIV.

I once tried to see if the cultures were equal. I set racial points to 0 to make it easy, manually changed the stats to match the changes in stat each culture would make. Then I made the sub-final score from positive into negative, or vice versa, because a more positive score (which I would turn into a negative score), meant that the game considered yourself weaker now.

A lot of the scores were 150 to 300. All in all, not horrible, which a few exceptions. The second lowest score, interestingly enough, was Politicians with a final score of -20. (Coincedence?) But the worst by far was my favorite one to choose! Engineers with -450!

And before I hear the "Mod it!" reply, I did already. I just thought someone should change the default settings to be somewhat equal.

Note: I think the main thing that did this is that Space Combat adds its value to Agressiveness AND Defensivess, and that Production increases the stats of all 3 resources. (I'm am positive of this, I spent hours on this whole project just to see if it was equal (Goodness, I can be a nerd sometimes).


P.S.: I don't like the money idea. For those inter-planetary games, it's fine, as money is only compared in each country (or in galactic games, maybe planets or even empires). But with different races, ones money becomes irrelevant, you either can create those ships or you ran out, as all money stays in that race/empire, and as it circulates, doens't really seem to matter. (Hmm...this all makes sense in my head, but it sounds so unstructured when I try to explain it.) Anyhow, besides that, chances are that not all races use money at all! How many times has Star Trek (which seems to be a common mod thingy) mentioned how archaic money has become in the future?

[ June 22, 2004, 15:54: Message edited by: Traskelion ]